Art news

Cat-Rabbit and Ghostpatrol combine their love of illustration and sculpture to create a collection of animated creatures in While You Sleep, exhibiting at Gorker Gallery from this Thursday. The display of hand-crafted sculptures were developed through Ghostpatrol's illustrations, while Cat-Rabbit brings the mystical creatures to life with cotton and thread. The pair have been combining their art over the past four years and will host an artist talk on Saturday 21st February from 1pm as part of While You Sleep.

While You Sleep
Opening Night Thursday 19th February 6pm - 9pm
Until Sunday March 8th
Gorker Gallery
395 Gore Street
Corner of Gore & Kerr Street
Fitzroy, Melbourne

Linn Olofsdotter is a talented  illustrator and artist who was born in Sweden and worked in Brazil. Her work has appeared in major campaigns for the likes of Levi's, Samsung, and Starbucks Liquer.
Here is some of her latest work.

The Selby art space gives young hopefuls a sneak peek into the homes of designers, musicians, artists, models and anyone else most people want to be.
Check out Erin Wasson chilling in her pad.

Audrey Kawasaki has carved a niche with her perfected visions of exotic Lolita delicacies. With a touch of whimsical lightness and moments of art nouveau stylistic flourishes she has won many hearts world-wide.

YEN is pleased to join Outré Gallery in February to present Audrey’s first Australian exhibition featuring a beautiful selection of rare sold-out prints plus one brand new original painted especially for this showing. A new print edition exclusive to Outré will be released at this time.

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Batteries Not Included at the Australian Centre for Photography presents the work of 12 artists investigating the hybrid offspring of photomedia; splicing photography with performance, reanimating found images or mechanising the moving image.

Featuring
Ben Barretto
Martin Bell
The Changes
Marley Dawson
Ross Manning
Spat + Loogie
Paul Winkler
& Jonathan Zawada

Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford Street, Paddington  NSW 2021 Sydney
Thursday the 29th January from 6 - 8pm

I'm a sucker for a pretty picture, constantly taking to my magazines like a butcher and hacking away at the glossies and plastering fashion editorials all over my walls. This is why this website is my latest obsession. Sign up (it takes 2 seconds!), look at pretty pictures and heart them. Here's some gems I found.

Sydney’s abundance of art galleries surely make for quite a peaceful and reflective stroll if you’re feeling the need (no life, right here). I usually count the Museum of Contemporary Art as one of my favourites with their awesome gift store full of independent designers and coffee table books. But after reading in the SMH that they propose to do this, I’m kind of expecting some eye gouging come 2011. Sure, let’s make the building bigger but this may just be the architectural equivalent to buying fat pants – sure, they provide more room for excess baggage, but in no way are they flattering.

Here, I present to you the MCA’s fat pants.

I quite appreciate the old world charm and design of The Rocks, so this extension seems too ultra modern and out of place with its current surroundings. Tell us what you think.